Lorry Definition for the Freight Industry presented by Apparel Search
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A lorry is an expression for
- a truck
- an open railroad car with a tipping trough, often found in mines
- The word originally meant a sort of heavy horse-drawn wagon. This is an obsolete usage.
The word may have originated as the personal name "Laurie", which is short for "Lawrence".
| The above article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lorry). Definition modified by Apparel Search 6/4/05. |
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